Wemby's way better than Ralph Sampson ever was and Sampson was screwed over by an incompetent Rockets team that rushed him back from a bad knee injury that he should have sat out the season for.
The story of Barnes dating back to his UNC days. When he goes cold, he stays cold. Always been a streaky jump shooter, but credit to him for attacking the rim and contributing.
Ha ha the memory is coming back. I remember at times they would call him Malick. The Garnett fans were also pretty stupid on those boards with their vitriol for Duncan lol.
Their way to the championship is trading KAT for a legit secondary creator and another rim protector.
Not a bunch, but I think they desperately need an upgrade at the 4 position. Barnes is dog-shit and a net-negative player when he's not hitting his wide open looks, which is in basically every big game he ever plays in. He's mental midget and it's clear he's not the long-term answer.
I was asking him who he'd put out there that is already on the team to finish the game out. He didn't like that Mitch finished with Vic and 4 guards. I didn't see any good alternatives out there on who to play at PF tonight for what the situation was at the end. Spurs needed to score and hit threes to try and steal the win. The other guys like Julian and Harrison shrank out there. You could have tried Luke for rebounding, but no point really when he's not a threat on offense.
Been thinking the same thing. I just don't trust a lot of these role players. HB has been a great dude to teach, but he's not a playoff starter/big minute player on a team looking to win playoff games/series.
He makes 3m a year can’t expect too much from him tbh
Come on man. You can't be this stupid. Castle was one of the Spurs' best players tonight. You're going to bench him? Like get your hater glasses off. Spurs would have been blown out without Steph's hustle and play tonight. Sure, he's not a great three point shooter, but bench him and it's likely the Knicks guards score at will without him out there and there is no amount of threes that'll get them back in the game. Harper, no idea what you saw, but he was hitting his threes tonight. Both are a threat to get to the rim and score, pass, or even hit a 3.
It's dumb to single out a specific play or two, but their entire run started when Wemby half-assed a rebound, Clarkson jumped behind him and stole it. Went out of bounds off Wemby.I just realized Harper out rebounded Wemby
It was just incompetent, not unethical when the refs blew the call on Kolek and Kornet's tangle-up, giving Maestro a tech, then reversing the call and yet wiping out Champ's three. Same with not calling out-of-bounds when the Knick was standing out of bounds in the scramble after Harper's miss. Turning point in game, kept Knicks' run going.
i'm saying your argument is faulty, not that i would have benched him. I was saying wemby makes coaches get greedy with small lineups and then results in conceding rebounds.
The entire first half KAT was just camping in the pain for the entire possession on offense (What is three seconds?) and elbowing Castle to get position. Just absurd.
Except it literally didn't matter
